Fluor is working around the world to promote economic development. Fluor invests in the local economy, hiring large numbers of the local workforce on projects, injecting cash into the local economy, and providing revenue to the local government. Once workers are hired, the company offers training in various crafts to enhance their skills and advance their careers.

Fluor has trained more than 250,000 people around the world to become skilled and safe craft workers. In Haiti, for example, Fluor has trained workers in using power tools. In South Africa, Fluor has trained thousands of people to be electricians and pipe fitters.

In hiring and training thousands of employees, often in difficult geographies, including Iraq, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan, Fluor continually monitors workplace policies and practices to ensure that they meet Fluor's well-established and demanding health and safety standards.

Some examples of Fluor's community development work:

Tengiz, Kazakhstan
Fluor, in partnership with Worley Parsons, is constructing a major oil and gas facility, part of the SGI-SGP Expansion Project, in Tengiz, Kazakhstan. One of the long-term goals of the project is to increase worker skills in Kazakhstan. By the end of 2007, 96,000 SGI-SGP employees had completed HSE Technical Course (Skills) training; 800 supervisors underwent Fluor Safety Leadership Training; and 400 attended a 30-hour Construction Safety class that complies with U.S. OSHA standards. These core competencies immediately benefit the employee, community, and project by providing a base of skilled workers and supervisory leadership for the present and the future in Kazakhstan.

Elko, Nevada
In June 2008, Fluor reached substantial completion of the Newmont TS Power Plant Project 60 miles west of Elko, Nevada, U.S.A. Fluor met the difficulties of attracting and developing qualified workers to this remote site by creating craft-training facilities for key areas such as welding, pipefitting, and ironworking. In addition, Fluor utilized the Job Corps training facility of Fluor's DEL-JEN subsidiary in Albuquerque to provide basic skills training needed to help employees be more productive on site. To date, Fluor has employed more than 450 Native Americans at the project site with a majority of those coming from the Navajo Nation.

Mpumalanga, South Africa
Fluor's Training Center in Secunda, Mpumalanga, South Africa, is one of the country's oldest training centers. In partnership with the government's job creation and economic growth programs, unskilled and unemployed people are taught skills so that they can become more productive in society and improve their lives. The center has full accreditation status for welders, electricians, boilermakers, fitters, and riggers, and has been commended for its part in the government's plans to produce at least 12,500 artisans each year over the next four years.